Angelina Jolie reveals why she ended her marriage to Billy Bob Thornton: 'We had nothing to say to each other'
Superstar Angelina Jolie often makes headlines for her because of her movies and her humanitarian work. Her Pernicious The star's high-profile relationships, especially her previous marriage to Brad Pitt, also keep her as a hot topic in the tabloids.
Jolie's run down the aisle with her second husband Billy Bob Thornton in 2000 was also highlighted, with many unique details of her marriage. The two were openly passionate about each other, but they divorced only two years later. The Oscar-nominated actor previously shared what separated them.
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Playing husband and wife in the 1999 film Pushing Tin Jolie and Thornton had an instant connection. Upon marrying in May 2000 in Las Vegas, the couple's marriage came as a special surprise to Big Little Lies star Laura Dern, who was engaged to Thornton at the time.
"I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend got married and I never heard from him again," Dern said. Thornton's Talk Magazine in 2000. 'It's like a sudden death. For no one has there been any closure or clarity. '
The unlikely couple proceeded to fill magazine covers, revealing many idiosyncrasies about their relationship. In addition to their 20-year age difference, wearing flasks of each other's blood around their necks, changing their underwear, and gifting each other with patterns for his and her grave distinguishes the couple from a typical husband and wife.
"People think they know a lot about our relationship," Jolie said, according to the New York Times. “They know very little. They have pretty strong opinions about how little they know. I can't help it. But I don't think there is anything strange about us. ... I am a very normal woman who is crazy about her man. And I am also many other things. '
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According to Vanity Fair, the two were still married when Jolie adopted her first child, Maddox. Thornton was on tour with his band at the time, when rumors of his infidelity began to swirl. He denied the allegations, although Jolie wasn't so sure.
"I don't think they're false," the Sal star said of the reports, adding that Thornton also didn't want to commit to expanding his family. 'I wasn't, uh, ready, but, uh, he sent me his love. It's a bit tragic. '
Jolie still held Thornton in high regard, sharing how they just went from being in sync to going their separate ways.
'He's a really good man,' she told Vanity Fair in 2005. 'He's hysterical, we laugh a lot. ... What went wrong, or wasn't even wrong, but what wasn't meant to be was that he was concentrating on his music and I was upstairs reading. I went through a change in my life and started paying more attention to the news and learning about other countries and being more politically active. '
'I never felt good enough for her'
The By the Sea director described how his opposing interests continued to separate them.
“I was saying, 'Ok, well, listen, you're going to finish this song and I'm going to Washington and see you on Monday,'” Jolie recalled. "Then he would come back and we wouldn't discuss what he wrote in the studio, and we wouldn't discuss what I learned in Washington."
With Jolie making more humanitarian efforts and Thornton focusing on his music, the couple separated to the point of never returning.
“In a year I became who I am today, a lot, and he became who he is today,” he explained in 2005. “They were totally different paths in life, and then we looked at each other one day and they didn't have us. nothing to say '.
Thornton seemed a little more puzzled shortly after their breakup, unable to pin down the specific reasons for her divorce from him.
I don't think either of us knows why we split up, 'he said in 2003, according to Entertainment Weekly. 'It was like, let's say you're going to a nightclub one night with your friends and you're in line and the next thing you know is there are guys with helicopters and there's machine gun fire and you don't know what happened. And that's how our breakup was. '
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The couple maintains a strong friendship to this day. In a 2016 interview with GQ Thornton expressed his continued affection for Jolie, but admitted: 'I never felt good enough for her.
